Inuit Carved Soapstone Narwahl with Bone Tusk glowing and love its dynamism

and love its dynamism

and indeed

4 3/4" long x 4 3/8" wide x 7/8" deep

and demonstrating the wonderful ingenuity and design sensibilities of their makers

with some roughness to the wood on the darker blue side

Inuit Carved Soapstone Narwahl with Bone Tusk glowing and love its dynamismWhat a miraculous creature is the narwhal (or narwhale, or Unicorn of the Sea!), possessing a sense of the mythological, but real, found in the Arctic waters around Greenland, Canada, and Russia. The spiraled tusk is actually an elongated tooth, which, almost exclusively in males, can can grow up to 10 feet long. It is most commonly a left tooth, but occasionally a right tusk develops too, giving some narwhal two tusks! I can't help but to think of